Comet 209P/Linear US and Canada on Alert A New Meteor Superstorm Expected May 23-24 (+Video) Live Event

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Comet 209P/Linear US and Canada on Fire – A New Meteor Superstorm   on May 23-24

Two years ago, meteor experts Esko Lyytinen of Finland and Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center announced that Earth was due for an encounter with debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR. Streams of dust ejected by the comet mainly back in the 1800s would cross Earth’s orbit on May 24, 2014. The result, they said, could be a significant meteor outburst. http://phys.org/news/2014-05-webcast-comet-linear-meteor-shower.html

“We expect these meteors to radiate from a point in Camelopardalis, also known as ‘the giraffe,’ a faint constellation near the North Star,” Cooke said. “It’s a great opportunity to see a new meteor shower — an opportunity I want to see with my own eyes.”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/209P/LINEAR

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